Last night, Logan Mailloux scored his first goal in the National Hockey League.
He found himself alone at the top of the faceoff circles and fired a lightning wrist shot to deceive the vigilance of Semyon Varlamov.
The analysis should stop there when we’re talking about a first career goal, but unfortunately for Mailloux, that’s not the case, and it probably never will be.
We just have to look at the comments under the publication of his first goal by the PuckReport Instagram account.
People have not forgotten his past, even if he was forgiven and was able to show very good psychological progress after his mistake of 2021.
All of this will probably follow Mailloux throughout his career, but in the end, three years later, we really understand why Marc Bergevin and his team decided to draft him 31st despite his scandal.
In the end, it will have cost (largely) the work of Bergevin, Trevor Timmins and Paul Wilson, but they will have made a good choice.
And that, well, Paul Wilson made it very clear last night by congratulating Logan Mailloux on his first goal in the NHL while slipping in a subtle #GoodChoice.
We recall that Wilson was in charge of public relations during the Marc Bergevin era, and was therefore in position when the enormous tsunami of media and fan criticism hit the team following the selection of Mailloux in the draft. of 2021.
Bergevin, Wilson and Timmins had prepared the plan together with the selection of Logan Mailloux, and therefore all suffered together a few months later, when they were all fired on the same day.
This tweet from Wilson to congratulate Mailloux for his first goal in the NHL, is therefore a certain revenge and an indirect arrow sent to the Montreal Canadiens, who are currently benefiting from Mailloux’s performances, while the three men responsible for his selection are returned to other skies.
Bergevin has moved into administration for the Los Angeles Kings, Trevor Timmins is working with the draft team for the Columbus Blue Jackets, and Paul Wilson has found a new job outside of the hockey world.
The three men were clearly smiling yesterday when Mailloux scored his first goal.
Also note that at the time, Chantal Machabée, who replaced Paul Wilson, had affirmed that the CH had made a bad choice with Logan Mailloux, while she was still a journalist.
She then reiterated in an interview, when she was already VP of communications for the club, that the CH should never have drafted Logan Mailloux, and that this was the big mistake of the former management.
In short, after all, I am sure that Chantal Machabée, who worked a lot with Logan Mailloux, was happy and proud to see him score his first NHL goal last night.
Mailloux is an excellent defender, and if he continues like this, he could become one of the defensive pillars for the Habs.
In Burst
– Speaking of Mailloux.
– Please note.
– The slope looks very steep to climb for the Preds.
– To be continued.
– Interesting.
